Games Workshop Shoots Themselves In The Foot

[mundens]

Just received my White Dwarf, complete with a two free plastic figures from the new edition Warhammer range. You get a free Night Goblin spearman and a Dwarven axeman.

However that is a marketing gimmick that has spectacularly failed. Because these are the worst plastic fantasy figures I've ever seen! The Grenadier plastics from way back in the eighties were better! All previous editions of Games Workshop figures have been better!.

You get a Night Goblin and a Dwarf on a single sprue. The entire figure including shield is a single solid piece. And they have lumpy, un-animated designs, obviously intended to make them simple to cast, rather than for any aesthetic purpose. There are quite noticeable flash and cast lines, but the mould is at least straight.The base is part of the sprue, like the second edition WH40K grots.

So basically, if this is an example of the normal figures in the Battle of Skull Pass set, then unless you want the terrain pieces and "special" models, I would advise you not to bother! I'd advise people to search for previous edition regiment boxes of Dwarves and Night Goblins if you want those troops.

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The WH 40k Battle for Macragge starter set. The Termagants and Genestealers were much simplified from the usual sprues, and I don't even wanna talk about the space marines - I had to shave soooo much off one when I used him on my carnifex base (being stepped on and mushed into the ground as the 'fex walks on by...)

The mould lines were pretty awful. But I've noticed that on lots of the Citadel minis since I started on collecting 'nids last year.